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...military ally," Galbraith wrote, "the entire Laos nation is clearly inferior to a battalion of conscientious objectors from World War I. We get nothing from their support and I must say I wonder what the Communists...
...Instead. of obesity being the reason why middle-income executives get less prominent positions and fewer promotions, as Robert Half claims [Jan. 14], perhaps the reverse is true: that because of an inferior job, giving rise to feelings of frustration and inadequacy, such executives eat excessively to ease their unhappiness...
Hunt said he believed the cage could even give the runners a psychological edge. "When you run on an inferior facility you tend to really move when you get on a first-class track," he said...
...life and works. That is the great debate of nature vs. nurture, genetics vs. environment, Shockley vs. the sane world. For, throughout Wells's works, there is a recurring pattern of ideas which centers around the stark determinism of Darwinian evolution, the possible effects it may have if inferior men continue to breed, and the need for an enlightened (ie. genetically superior) elite to rule the world. This pattern looms large in H.G. Wells, an enlightening--if limited--new biography by Norman and Jeanne MacKenzie...
...natural selection would eventually separate the weak and the strong into two distinct classes. The powerful class would oppressively dominate the subservient one, using it for whatever means it wished. This theme is best seen in The Time Machine, where the cave-dwelling Morlocks lord over the gentle, but inferior Eloi. The War of the Worlds reflects a different kind of Darwinism, where the Martians kill off the "weak and the silly," leaving the earth to begin again, ruled by the strong. The MacKenzies are sensitive enough to perceive Wells's frustrated attempts to synthesize evolution and entropy into apocalypse...